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Ajit Kumar Panda joins as CMD, CONCOR

Ajit Kumar Panda joins as CMD, CONCOR
Ajit Kumar Panda, Director (Project & Services), CONCOR, has taken over the charge as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Container Corporation of India Limited (CONCOR).

Panda holds Degrees of BSc Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from NIT, Rourkela and M. Tech (Thermal Engineering) from IIT, Delhi. He has been an Officer of Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (1990 batch). In his career spanning three and half decades, Panda has acquired rich experience and expertise in Railway services, operations, logistics, productions, infrastructure, Rolling Stock and Public Private Partnerships.

As Director (Projects & Services) of Container Corporation of India Limited since December, 2022, Panda was in charge of CONCOR’s infrastructure including setting up of Multi Modal Logistics Parks, acquisition of new Rolling Stock, Containers and handling machines and development of CONCOR’s MIS and IT platforms. He has been instrumental in launching of various new business initiatives by CONCOR.

Earlier, Panda has served as Executive Director (Mechanical Engineering and Project Planning & Development) in Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), Director (Production Units and Efficiency & Research), Ministry of Railways (Railway Board), Chief Workshop Manager, East Coast Railway, Mancheswar and in various other positions of South Eastern Railway. He has also been a Director in Boards of four SPV companies, namely, Haridaspur Paradip Railway Company Limited, Angul Sukinda Railway Limited, Kutch Railway Company Limited and Krishnapatnam Railway Company Limited.

At RVNL, Panda has led setting up several state of the art factories and depots by fast track turnkey execution through composite contracts. He piloted Rolling Stock plans at Railway Board to rapidly switchover to High Horse Power Locomotives and LHB type coaches and coordinated record production of locomotives, coaches and wagons. He provided transformational leadership at Mancheswar Workshop through a series of interventions for organizational change and development.

Panda has been two times recipient of Railway Minister’s National Award for Outstanding Service.
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